right now? how high is that threat? i think it s a real threat. we are live tonight in ukraine, in belgium and in washington, d.c. i want to go first, though, to our correspondents. and frederick pleitgen live for us in kyiv, phil mattingly in brussels. hello to both of you. fred, i m going to start with you. even in spite of russian bombardment, fred, ukrainians are gaining groundout pz outsidf kyiv. there s been intense shelling and explosions going on especially toward the north of kyiv, toward the northwest and northeast of kyiv. there you can see the uranians are increasingly firing at russian positions not just with artillery but rocket artillery as well. clearly a large operation that s been going on there. and the ukrainians aren t really talking much about it. the gains they re making there,